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by emilbratt 102 days ago
I have been waiting... so many years for this. Like, I figured it would never come. So happy to be wrong. Wonder if it will work well on Raspberry Pi and also if it will come with Hardware Video Acceleration out of the box.
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There's always Firefox.
Me too. Trying to get Chrome to run in Docker on an ARM Mac was a battle that I didn't win (I didn't want to fight the battle to start with but I had to use a Mac rather than Linux).
I would have more faith in Raspberry Pi's own patched build of Chromium to do hardware acceleration properly on the Pi than I would have in Google's generic Chrome build.
But as far as i know, there has never been working HW accelerated video in their build of Chromium. But yeah, I guess you have point.
If enough people ask Broadcom to do VA-API on their platforms getting that enabled on Chromium shouldn't be too hard. The caveat is that codec support is limited (no VP8/VP9/AV1).